Lake Streamer Fishing

This weekend I was able to get in a little bit of fishing. While I was in Dutch John for my days off, I attempted to find someone who wanted to float the river and streamer fish on what was supposed to be a day of beautiful weather. Unfortunately no-one was in the mood to go float the river except me. So I continued to work the phones, calling everyone I knew who was around and might be interested in a little afternoon fishing. It was while calling around that I got ahold of another guide who was coming into town and thought he might want to go out on the reservoir to chase big lakers, and I inquired if I could join. So a couple hours later we were on the lake chasing macs. However, for some reason or other the macs were not in the mood to give us any attention so, after a fruitless hour or so we decided instead to try for little rainbows just to feel the tug on the end of our lines. I then began casting an 8 wt. rigged with a full sinking line towards the shore with a little gold tail streamer. On the eighth or ninth cast I was taking a break and just twitching the streamer when I felt a fish latch on. I strip set into the fish and felt that I had a fish on. I fought him briefly, garnering a few good tugs on the eight weight before landing him and getting a good picture. After releasing such a beautiful little rainbow I found that I had a massive tangle in the line, so I spent a bit of time trying to get the tangle out. While I was untangling, my friend Tommy had a couple of fish strike but was not able to get either fish on. When I finally got untangled I then proceeded to fishing a little bit more. I ended up missing one fish that short struck, and hooking up with another that came unbuttoned soon after. After fishing a little longer we called it a day, A great day to break up a long drought of not going fishing.

Winter Months

The winter provides many of it's own challenges. The fly fishing is still good this time of the year but the weather, and the cold make for a brutal detriment to guiding. Therefore, I find it necessary to pursue another line of employment to keep my bills paid. This winter I am driving a hot shot truck in the oil fields of Northeast Utah. I find that the further I drift into the off season the more I look forward to mid-March and the promise of a new season of guiding on the Green, my home. 

For the last two years I have found what I believe makes me truly happy. To guide clients on the Green a river that I have truly fallen in love with every thing that it holds. It is a true pleasure to show my clientele the wonders of this river. I look forward to this coming season where I will get to spend more quality time on the river with clients that I have met over the previous two seasons. As well as I am looking forward to the many new faces that I will have in my boat. I look forward to the friendships that will develop out of these trips. 

Unfortunately I have been unable to get on the river to go fishing much over the past month or so. The only day that I have had available over the last few weeks to go fishing was instead occupied by the need to winterize my boat. However, my next days off I definitely intend to, rain or shine, at least get out for a couple of hours walk wading, if not for a whole day of floating throwing streamers. And when I do get out there, I will write in here as many details of my day that I can including some pictures of the days endeavors.